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Fall 2011 Programs
GOOSE STEPPING ON LONG ISLAND: CAMP SIEGFRIED
Exhibit on loan from the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center and Archives

September 15 – October 28
Library, Ammerman Campus
Suffolk County Community College

Exhibit explores Nazism in America and focuses on the German-American summer camp in Yaphank, L.I.
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LONG ISLAND’S CONNECTION TO THE HOLOCAUST
A presentation by Prof. Steven Klipstein

October 13: 4 – 5 PM

This is a professional development program limited to teachers (no fee). A Certificate of Attendance will be provided. Registration is required.

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LETTERS TO SALA – A YOUNG WOMAN’S LIFE IN NAZI LABOR CAMPS
Exhibit on loan from the French Children of the Holocaust Foundation

November 3 – November 29
Program and Kristallnacht Remembrance, November 17, 5 pm
Learning Commons Gallery, Eastern Campus (Riverhead)
Suffolk County Community College

Speakers at this event will be Jill Vexler, Curator, and Ann Kirschner, Sala’s daughter.

“The exhibition demonstrates how the powerful words of friends and family nourished a young girl and sustained the fragile threads of identity and humanity that were under attack during the five long years of slavery in Nazi labor camps.”
For more information, visit:
Sala's Gift
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Past CHDHU Programs

	March 15, 2011 - Hate Crimes Awareness “Crossing The Line” speakers: Craig Cooper, Paul Jann and Det. Lt. Gary Shapiro. “Not In Our Town” speakers: Patrice O’Neill, Paul Pontieri, Jr. and Joselo Lucero. Responding to Hate in Our Community speakers: Rabbi Steven Moss, Steven Freeman, Theresa Sanders & Luis Valenzuela.		Nov. 8 – Dec. 17, 2010 Diana Kurz’ Loss, Memory, Remembrance art exhibition.
	November 8, 2010 Kristallnacht Remembrance program, Diana Kurz and Barbara Lovenheim.		September 14, 2010 Trail Blazed by Justice Sotomayor panel discussion.
	April 15, 2010 Yom Hashoah The Nuremberg Trials: Their Abiding Impact on the 21st Century presentation by Harry Reicher.		April 15, 2010 Law under the Nazis presentation by Harry Reicher.
	March 23, 2010 Presentation by Bob Zellner on the civil rights movement.		March 22, 2010 Freedom Rising, Bob Zellner and Joseph McNeil.
	March 8 - March 26, 2010 Nazi Occupation of Poland and the Extermination of Polish Jews photographic exhibit, Lyceum Gallery, SCCC Riverhead campus. Reception and speakers on March 11, 2010.		February 26 - March 12, 2010 Homeless Initiative Photo Exhibit, Rob Goldman. Reception and speakers on March 8, 2010.
	October 15, 2009 Destruction of Law & the Judicial System by the Nazis Presentation by Harry Reicher.		January 27 - February 27, 2009 Occupation of Poland and the Extermination of Polish Jews photographic exhibit, Art Gallery, Southampton Bldg., SCCC Ammerman campus, Selden. Reception and speakers on February 4, 2009.
	April 3, 2008 Heroes: The Stories of Resecue From Genocide Mordachai Miller, Eugenie Mukeshimana and Dr. Frank Oliveri.		February 4 - 29, 2008 Slavery and its Long Island Connections exhibition, Lyceum Gallery, SCCC Eastern campus. Reception and speakers on February 25, 2008.
	October 24, 2007 Sponsored in conjunction with Suffolk Academy of Law, Cultural Diversity & the Legal Profession, Suffolk County Bar Association. Speakers: Luis Pagan, Linda Nanos, Derrick Robinson, Paul Lamb and Steven Schrier.		October 23, 2007 The Music of the Holocaust, Long Island Philharmonic at SCCC Grant campus, Brentwood.
	October 10, 2007 Jackie Robinson's Legacy, exhibit and lecture, SOuth Country Library.		April 24, 2007 Darfur Teach-In.
	March 27, 2007 Emerging From Segregation: Jackie Robinson's Legacy in Postwar America, Steve Jacobson, Stanley Glenn and Ron Armstrong.		November 3 - 31, 2006 The Liberators: Soldiers at Work exhibit at the SCCC Sayville Downtown Center. Reception and speakers on November 9, 2006.
	October 24, 2006 Anniversary of judgments at Nuremberg: Justice and Reconciliation.		October 5-13 2006 Marching through History: An Intimate Portrait of Cesar Chavez and the Farmworker's Movement.
	October 24, - December 12, 2006 The Sunflower, film and discussion series.		April 13, 2006 Darfur Awareness Day in conjunction with Congressman Steve Israel and the American Jewish Committee.
	March 22, 2006 The Muslim Jewish Connection, featuring Rabbi Rievan Slavkin and Nayyar Imam.		March 15, 2006 Sponsored in conjunction with the Ammerman Campus Library Writers'Café Series - poet, Charles Fishman, reading from his new book, Chopin's Piano.
	February 27 - 28, 2006 Community Reception for the inaugural showing of the From Slavery to Freedom exhibit and the Slavery on Long Island exhibit and program.		Nov. 7 - Dec. 19, 2005 The Liberators: Soldiers at Work exhibit on the Eastern campus.
	November 2 & 16, 2005 Building a Better Long Island: The Contributions of Immigrants exhibit and program held on the Ammerman and Grant Campuses.		April 15, 2005 Perspectives on Freedom Interfaith Breakfast celebrating religious freedom and pluralism.
	March 16 - 22, 2005 March 9 - 14, 2005 Faces of Resistance: Women in the Holocaust exhibit and program held on the Grant and Ammerman Campuses.		March 9, 2005 Dedication Ceremony for the Exhibition Gallery and Research Center of the Suffolk Center on the Holocaust, Diversity & Human Understanding.
	April 18 - 20, 2004 Bridges to Human Understanding inaugural program.